Chapter 33: Quest Override Detected: Part Three

[Report. Party has entered the Last Goblin Settlement: The Goblins’ Dungeon Boss, The Goblin Lord’s Village.]

[Report. ERROR CODE DETECTED!]

[Party has neither failed nor has it succeeded in completing the current Immediate Party Quest. 2 uncompleted Immediate Party Quests have been processed simultaneously. Quest Override detected. The 2 Immediate Party Quests will now merge with one another to form a new Immediate Party Quest. Now processing new Immediate Party Quest…]

[Party will now recieve the new Immediate Party Quest…]

[New Immediate Party Quest contents.]

New Immediate Party Quest: Party must clear the E-Rank Dungeon. For that to happen, party must exterminate the Dungeon Boss, The Goblin Lord, all thirty of the Great Goblins, all three-hundred and thirteen of the High Goblins and all nine-thousand nine-hundred and eighty-six of the normal Goblins in the area within the given time duration.

Duration: 7hours

Upon Success: The E-Rank Dungeon will be cleared and party members will live.

Upon Failure: Party members will die.

Rewards will be calculated after the Quest is completed based on the party’s efficiency.

“Look at that, ten-thousand plus total! This is gonna be so awesome!”

“Getting off on life or death situations is a weird kink, don’t you think?”

“Is that directed at me?”

“Do you see anybody else?”

“Other than the judgy chick who thinks I’ve got weird kinks, no.”

“Exactly. I might as well start calling you ’kinkster’ from now on.”

“Please don’t.”

“Kinkster.”

“You’re a child. Seriously. You’re an enormous child.”

“No mirrors at home, huh?”

“Good one. Moving on…got any clue on what’s up with these guys?”

“You noticed it too, huh? Odd, isn’t it? They stopped chasing us as soon as we entered the Boss’ village.”

“Are they waiting for his command or something?”

“Maybe, but why’s he just sitting there on that throne of his while simply staring at us?”

“Beats me.”

We had arrived at the Boss’ village. The Quest had already started, but the Goblin Lord had not moved an inch. There he sat, on his throne of bones, simply staring at us from the distance. His village was a lot bigger than the rest, like a lot bigger. At least five times bigger. The huts however, while bigger than the ones from other villages, were fewer. In the far end centre of the area, was his throne. And he just sat there, while every other Goblin quietly stood as if awaiting his command. He had four arms it seemed. The lower one of his two right hands holding a spear while the lower one of his left hands held a longsword. His upper right hand however, held a bow, while a bag of numerous arrows hung behind his back.

Surrounding me and Peyton, was an army of three-hundred and thirteen High Goblins with their longswords, Surrounding them, making sure to keep a fair distance, was an over seven-thousand strong army of spear Goblins, while the rest, as the reaguad of said-army were the archers. The thirty Great Goblins, however, stood guard in front of their Lord. After a long silence that felt like an eternity, the Lord, finally, raised his upper left hand. As he did that, all the Goblins started to move. A space was then cleared, a straight path, leading from us to him. It wasn’t an invitation, nor was it him saying he’d come to us. He reached over to his back, calmly took out six arrows and shot them in an instant. They were extremely fast, travelling a little over 700 kilometres per hour. Three of them headed straight for me while the other three headed for Peyton, she dodged each one of them expertly, meanwhile I activated my Brawler Skill then launched a punch, shattering all three of mine. I then quickly noticed that the arrows Peyton had dodged had turned around mid air to attack her from behind.

“Look out!”

I was sure she’d be able to still deal with it on her own given her skill but I didn’t want to take any chances so I quickly dashed towards the arrows then punched them to pieces.

“Thanks for that. Was that some sort of Skill of his?” She asked.

“Seems like it. Looks like it makes it impossible for him to miss, his arrows won’t stop until they hit their target. It’s a good thing they aren’t that powerful, so it’s relatively easy to destroy them. Anyway, I gotta ask, do you really fight barehanded?”

“Sometimes, but I do

have weapons.”

“Oh yeah? Where are they?”

“….I don’t wanna talk about it.” She pouted, crossing her arms, then hurriedly looked away as her cheeks turned red.

“Huh? The heck? What’s that all about?”

“God, you’re a handful. Well can you use blades?” I asked.

“Of course I can.”

“Great. Here then.” I conjured out First Dawn from the Item Space. “Her name’s First Dawn, she’s my masterpiece, so take good care of her, okay?” I said as I threw it to her. She caught it and looked at it.

“You even give your weapons genders. Is that some other kink of yours?”

“Seriously?”

“I’m kidding….hm? Hold on, this weapon, is it-”

“Don’t ask questions, just use it.”

“…you’re gonna explain yourself after this, right?”

“I’d rather not, but I doubt you’d give me a choice, so, might as well.”

“Good boy.”

“Don’t even.”

“Hehe, sorry.” That’s right, I can be scary too.

“Now then. Let’s get serious.” I declared, deactivating the Brawler Skill as we both got ready, standing back to back. The Goblins were still adhering to their Lord’s whims. He then raised both his spear and sword and yelled out.

“Rinko!!! Ni-Aru! Ni-Asifa! Nakiier a homi saruf! Nakiier a G’nori!”

All the other Goblins then followed in unison stomping down their spears repeatedly. “Ni-Asifa! Nakiier a G’nori! Ni-Asifa! Nakiier a G’nori!”

“Looks like they’re also starting to get serious.” I said in observation.

“No kidding.” Replied Peyton.

The High Goblins that were surrounding us then started attacking. As they did that, I had but a single sentence left to utter.

“Great, I can finally get to check this out. Activate Ifrit Skill. Let’s go, fire blade.”

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